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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."
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"All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder-either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity."

"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."

"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

"With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible."

"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in the dissimilar."
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